Latest Parasitology Podcast Episodes
TWiP 232: Lives of Wolbachia
This Week in Parasitism - April 05, 2024 04:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsTWiP reviews the cellular lives of Wolbachia, a gram-negative bacteria that infects many arthropods and filarial nematodes with very different outcomes – parasitism or mutualism. Hosts: Dickson Despommier, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts...
TWiP 231: Scotch in drink and tape
This Week in Parasitism - March 31, 2024 17:41 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsTWiP solves the case of the Woman With White Worms, and presents a new clinical case to decipher. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Links for this episode Join the MicrobeTV Disc...
TWiP 230: Healing cutaneous leishmaniasis with Maria Adelaida Gomez
This Week in Parasitism - March 01, 2024 18:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsMaria Adelaida Gomez joins TWiP to discuss her career and the work of her laboratory on understanding the healing process during cutaneous leishmaniasis. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula Guest: Maria Adelaida Gomez Subscribe (free): Apple P...
TWiP 229: The very hungry flatworm
This Week in Parasitism - February 27, 2024 19:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsEyal joins TWiP to solve the case of the Female Traveler with Intermittent Fever and Ring Enhancements in the Liver. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula Guest: Eyal Leshem Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Links f...
TWiEVO 98: The worms strike back!
This Week in Evolution - February 27, 2024 15:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsNels and Vincent discuss how behavioural individuality determines infection risk in clonal ant colonies. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the MicrobeTV Discord serv...
TWiEVO 97: Germs trapping worms
This Week in Evolution - February 27, 2024 15:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsNels and Vincent review a study of the key processes required for the different stages of fungal carnivory by a nematode-trapping fungus. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiEVO Links for this episode...
TWiP 228: Parasitic fountain of youth
This Week in Parasitism - February 06, 2024 19:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsTWiP discusses a tapeworm that causes extreme lifespan extension in infected ant workers, and a candidate antibody drug for prevention of malaria. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email ...
TWiP 227: Alpha-gal syndrome
This Week in Parasitism - January 20, 2024 02:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsJim Small joins TWiP to solve the case of the 41 year old Man with sudden GI distress and itchy hives, followed by a discussion of parasites and childhood stunting. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula Guest: Jim Small Subscribe (free): Apple P...
TWiP 226: Successful systems attract parasites
This Week in Parasitism - January 03, 2024 21:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsTWiP reviews some parasite stories of 2023, including progress in the control of malaria and polio, and review a connection between parasites and childhood stunting. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Po...
TWiEVO 96: Going bananas over the origins of corn
This Week in Evolution - December 26, 2023 20:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsNels and Vincent discuss the origins of two modern day agriculturally important plants: a role for two different wild teosintes in making modern maize, and the origin and evolution of the triploid cultivated banana genome. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Po...
TWiP 225: Wandering worm with Lee Gottesdiener
This Week in Parasitism - December 20, 2023 16:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsLee Gottesdiener joins TWiP to help solve the case of the 46 Year Old Man with Ongoing Upper Extremity Swelling, and review plant‑based production of a protective vaccine antigen against the bovine parasitic nematode Ostertagia ostertagi. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Daniel G...
TWiP 224: Neglected tropical diseases roadmap with Chuck Knirsch
This Week in Parasitism - December 12, 2023 17:15 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsChuck Knirsch returns to TWiP to discuss the Neglected Tropical Diseases Roadmap published by WHO, which sets global targets and milestones to prevent, control, eliminate or eradicate 20 diseases and disease groups. Chuck Knirsch returns to TWiP to discuss the Neglected Tropical Diseases Roadm...
TWiP 223: Voluminous diarrhea
This Week in Parasitism - November 28, 2023 22:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsTWiP solves the case of the Haitian female with AIDS and voluminous diarrhea, and review the pathogenesis, epidemiology, prevention and treatment of malaria and Chagas disease. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula Click arrow to play Download TW...
TWiEVO 95: Watering the viruses until they bloom
This Week in Evolution - November 14, 2023 23:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsNels and Vincent discuss how the rewetting of seasonally dried soils, a critical event in Mediterranean grasslands that reactivates dormant soil microorganisms, leading to pulses of carbon and nitrogen mineralization, and is accompanied by a bloom of viral diversity, followed by extensive viral ...
TWiP 222: Balamuthia in the brain with Natasha Spottiswoode
This Week in Parasitism - October 31, 2023 12:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsAt the meeting of the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygeine in Chicago, Natasha joins TWiP to solve the case of the Man with a Generalized Seizure and Infectious Forms in the Brain. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula Guest: Natasha...
TWiP 221: Delusional parasitosis
This Week in Parasitism - October 01, 2023 22:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsMichelle and Alexander join TWiP to solve their case of the 36 Year Old Male with shortness of breath, stinging pain in the extremities, fatigue, abdominal cramps, and bowel irregularities, and discuss host cell invasion by Trypanosoma cruzi. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Dani...
TWiEVO 94: A bacteria, a phage, and a selfish element walk into a cryptomonad
This Week in Evolution - September 29, 2023 17:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsNels and Vincent take apart an amazing symbiosis consisting of two bacteria, one bacteriophage, and seven different genomes all within a single-celled alga. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiEVO Li...
TWiEVO 93: Faster than a speeding bacteria
This Week in Evolution - August 25, 2023 01:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsNels and Vincent review a collision of synthetic biology and experimental evolution, using a minimal synthetic bacterial cell with only 473 genes, the smallest genome of any known organism that can be grown in lab culture. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Podc...
TWiP 220: Denies any bug bites
This Week in Parasitism - August 20, 2023 23:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsTWiP solves the case of the Hiker from Queens who Denies Bug Bites, and reveal two different malaria experimental vaccines that target different parts of the parasite life cycle. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula Subscribe (free): Apple Podcas...
TWIP 219: Sick as a dog
This Week in Parasitism - July 24, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsTWiP solves the case of the 19 month old Female Having Issues, and discusses the finding that selection for insecticide resistance can promote Plasmodium falciparum infection in Anopheles mosquitoes. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula Subscribe...
TWiEVO 92: There's algae in the jar
This Week in Evolution - July 21, 2023 17:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsNels and Vincent explain a study of how interspecies competition between two algae influences evolution of metabolism and size. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiEVO Links for this episode •Join ...
TWiEVO 91: Meet your very distant cousins
This Week in Evolution - July 17, 2023 21:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsNels and Vincent discuss new findings using phylogenetic approaches about how complex eukaryotic cells emerged from prokaryotic ancestors, which firmly place eukaryotes as a clade nested within the Asgard archaea. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent RacanielloS Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Go...
TWiP 218: Malaria parasite evades mosquito
This Week in Parasitism - June 29, 2023 23:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsTWiP solves two cases this week, the Man with Issues after COVID-19, and the Man with Left Arm Weakness, then describe how the malaria parasite evades mosquito immunity by glutaminyl cyclase–mediated posttranslational protein modification. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Daniel Griffin, and Christi...
TWiP 217: ChatGPT solves the case
This Week in Parasitism - June 05, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsTWiP solves the case of the Man With Dog Exposure, and discuss rapid and spontaneous post-partum clearance of Plasmodium falciparum related to expulsion of the placenta. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, ema...
TWiEVO 90: The mystery of the mouse mummies
This Week in Evolution - May 12, 2023 17:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsNels and Vincent provide insights into the mystery of mouse mummies on the summits of >6000 m Andean volcanoes, including whether they were living there and if so why? Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of...
TWiP 216: A challenging case
This Week in Parasitism - May 01, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsEyal joins TWiP to solve the case of the case of the Feverish Patient from Israel, and reveals his training and experience with travel medicine in Israel. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula Guest: Eyal Leshem Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts...
TWiEVO 89: On the outer rim of tumor evolution
This Week in Evolution - April 25, 2023 01:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsNels and Vincent discuss the observation that cells on a boundary of a solid tumor have higher growth rates compared to those in the center and how to model this difference using genome sequencing data. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcas...
TWiP 215: A mobile piece of spaghetti
This Week in Parasitism - March 30, 2023 17:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsTWiP solves the case of the case of the boy in Uganda with a mobile piece of spaghetti in the gallbladder, and reviews papers on female genital schistosomiasis in rural Madagascar, and a volatile sex attractant of tsetse flies. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Daniel Griffin, and...
TWiEVO 88: Dog days of evolution in the shadows of Chernobyl
This Week in Evolution - March 26, 2023 13:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsNels and Vincent review a study of the dogs of Chernobyl which reveals that genetically distinct populations with different amounts of western breed contributions to their genomes, the first step in assessing the effects of exposure to long-term ionizing radiation. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent...
TWiP 214: Tropical medicine excursions with Kay Schaefer
This Week in Parasitism - February 27, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsKay Schaefer joins TWiP to solve the case of the German Male with Hematuria, and discusses Tropical Medicine Excursions, which provides patient-oriented training courses for healthcare professionals who wish to improve their clinical skills in tropical medicine and travelers’ health in the ende...
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